The Sensitivity Of Photo-Oxidant Production
To Recent Changes In Rate Constants

The Sensitivity Of Photo-Oxidant Production
To Recent Changes In Rate Constants

Price

Free (open access)

Paper DOI

10.2495/EURO990882

Pages

6

Published

1999

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823 kb

Author(s)

B. Vogel, H. Vogel and F. Fiedler

Abstract

The Sensitivity of Photo-Oxidant Production
to Recent Changes in Rate Constants
A contribution to subproject CMD
B Vogel, H Vogel and F. Fiedler
Institut fiir Meteorologie und Klimaforschung, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH,
Universitat Karlsruhe, Postfach 3640, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
Introduction
Experimental work is necessary to study the ongoing reactions, to identify
reaction products, and to determine rate constants. However in the laboratory
only well defined mixtures and concentration levels are treated under well
defined ambient conditions. Numerical simulations are necessary to study the
importance of a reaction in the real atmosphere where a large variety of
concentration levels and ambient conditions exists.
Box-model runs with RADM2 (Stockwell et al., 1990) were carried out with
different amounts of NO emissions to study the sensitivity of the ozone
production to recent updates of the rate